tiptoe

Instead, she tiptoes along the basement wall, having adopted a battle stance I’ve seen in the shonen manga she loves to read.

Penelope switched to an extra-silent tiptoe, but it was too late.

Meanwhile, the boys wrapped blankets ’round themselves as dresses and tiptoed here and there, speaking in high voices and pretending to be Swanburne girls.

Lady Constance tiptoed backward in horror until her back was pressed flat against the wall.

Even as Mr. Roberts warned Monday about antisemitism on “far fringes of the right,” he remained on his tiptoes when it came to Mr. Carlson, who launders Jew-loathing to the mainstream.